Now, I realize this could have some negative effects, but what if on the Creatu Search, after telling you if a pet with the name "----" exists, it could tell you where it was?

Just a thought. Opinions?

Nothanks.

I've been heavily against something like this for a loong time. There are just too many drawbacks to justify the bit of convenience it would provide. For instance, I doubt any big name-collector would be happy after that. Every day they'd probably get twenty rMails - 'omg can i have wolf?'

And that's aggravating. That's why I decided to keep my blonde Iluvu in the very back of my profile Creatu. So people would stop freaking asking if I'll sell him. o_o

I understand your concern, Yoshi, but I would bet that more people would be convenienced with this idea than burdened with it. :/ Plus, the current name search is not practical. Telling you it exists, but not where it is, is not effective... People spend forever searching for some of these names to no avail.

Also, think of people with common-word usernames. What if someone with the username Alliance joins Res? (If there is a person named this, I am not trying to point attention to you.) If their biggest dream is to own their username pet, it would be very difficult to complete that goal. With my username (iheartyou919), I never had this problem, but many people do.

Thanks for the support Yaiz. <3

I collect names.

Hunting them down has always been a huge part of the game for me.

A lot of people ask me how I got so many and that's how. I just opened the search and trawled every day while I clicked around in other tabs. Some days I would find nothing, other days I would find amazing things worth a lot.

With a name search this would not exist anymore.

In a number of days everyone would have searched, found, and bought every single awesome name lurking in rancher shops. There would be no such thing as an 'epic find' anymore and the only way players could get awesome names is by spending insane amounts of TU.

Additionally, we have the graveyard available to us and can see which names are going to become available again.

Having a name search is something I would have approved of a very long time ago, but now that we haven't had it for so long names and finding names have unintentionally become a fun (and frustrating) way of playing the game. Ruining that for convenience is just not worth it.

The purpose of the name checker is not for us to find names, by the way. It's there so people don't use Name Tags on doubled names. The point is that it tells you how many there are.

It is a controversial topic and I'd like to see it discussed here further.

It's important to consider not only the obvious pros of easily finding names, but the possible cons as well.

The ability to find names would increase pet sales for some ranchers.

But would anyone just flip through the search? What about all the less-epic names? Will they have an even less likely chance of selling?

If we had a pet search, would every decent name be gone in a matter of weeks?

Will a new player ever be able to have an 'epic find'?

Will the selling of names become too competitive?

I'm just not sure.

The problem I have is one person's dream name might be the dream name for 10 other people and I feel like if it's that much of a dream name, they'd put the extra effort in to find it and all of the people after it can compete to get there first.

You're right about names having a high value in general, but I still believe that names are subjective. I have sold pets for not much at all and seen the buyer re-sell them for millions and millions and the reverse too.

I define 'epic find' as a name you want that others are likely to want, accidentally finding it while you search.

The other worry is all of the names that no one would ever search for. During your search for the name you're looking for you run into names that you never would have thought about otherwise and spend on them. This happens to me all the time.

Your arguments make sense to me, Yaiz. Honestly I completely understand why people want a name search and all of the reasons are good, but I just think people are ignoring possible negative repercussions.

I can't bring myself to support a name search unless there were limitations in place.

To have the whole site sit at a name search pulling everything decent off the search is a really bad idea in my mind.

If the search was to become obsolete for anything besides species/colour sales would drop.

Hopefully we can come up with some sort of compromise.

Perhaps if it was a CS function or an item of some sort?

But that wouldn't be very fair either because then only the already rich users who probably already have plenty of decent creatu would be able to use it. That would give newbie's less of a chance to find good names because they would have already been bought by those who are wealthy enough to buy the name search item.

Maybe there should be a limit of using it once a day or something. 

New users are going to lose out either way, Serenity. All the good names will be gone. q:

If we're considering new players who are signed up now, we have to consider new players who sign-up in future.

Otherwise we can't consider them at all as that would be a backwards approach.